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How to refresh second day hair in three easy steps!

Ever wake up in the morning and can’t figure out how your second day hair got so frizzy and dry? Ever wanna just pick it out, without worrying about having to rewet it or wash your hair over?

I am sure that this is every natural hair girls dilemma…how do you achieve a nice, simple, second day or third day hairstyle after your style has been depleted?

Today was one of those days. I woke up LOOKING CRAZY, but did not want to wash my hair over. To remedy this, I decided to refresh my hair using water in a spray bottle, my favorite styling product, some coconut oil and a pick.

Here is a three step formula in which I got my second day hot mess to look half way decent:

1. Spritz the areas of your hair in which you want to reshape

When I woke up this morning, my curls in my crown area were pretty much gone, while I had a few curls towards the back of my hair and the sides. I decided to spritz the crown area of my hair with water using a spray bottle, as well as the back of my hair due to severe dryness. The crown area of my hair seems to maintain moisture more so than the back, so I VERY LIGHTLY spritz the crown area, and gave the back of my hair more moisture. This step is important when reshaping because before you style, you want to make sure your hair isn’t super dry.

2. Apply your favorite styling product to desired area

The styling product I used for my hair is the Olive Oil Smooth N Hold Pudding. Best stuff ever when you are trying to achieve a style without a gel like hold. The smooth and creaminess of this product is perfect if you are trying to achieve a style without super defined curls, like an afro or a bantu knot. I simply took a dime sized amount of product and applied it to the desired areas of my hair. I did not SLAP the product on — I applied the product to my hair and finger raked it into my hair to make the product is distributed evenly.

Otherwise, the product would have just been sitting on my hair and that ain’t cute.

3. Pick it out, moisturize and style as preferred!

I love picks, y’all. Like, I LOVE PICKS. #teampicks!

Seriously, they are life savers, especially if you are a 4a doily chick who suffers severely from shrinkage. To use a pick, all you do is stick in it the root of your hair, gently lift the root and the ROOT only – I say root only because you want to make sure that you are not actually taking the pick to the end of your curl, otherwise you will ruin the curl pattern; you simply want to stretch your roots to stretch your hair out. You repeat those steps across your whole head until your hair looks the way you want it to look and ta da! You are done, and ready to go.

Don’t forget to take your favorite oil and moisturize your hair, to seal in the moisture. For this style, I used the spectrum unrefined coconut oil. Its like, $12 bucks at your local grocery store and works like a charm. Quick tip: When purchasing coconut oil, always make sure its UNREFINED. Since coconut oil works in different instances, you want to make sure that it is as pure and unprocessed as possible. Refined coconut oil is used to withstand medium to hot temperatures while cooking. Since you are simply using this to seal in moisture, you want to make sure it is unrefined. Always. 🙂

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Lizz is a 20 - something Detroit native, currently resides in Novi, Michigan. Full time sales representative at Dale Carnegie Training, as well as a student at Wayne State University, majoring in Journalism. Chose to embark on the Natural Hair expedition in December 2013, elated to share the journey with fellow naturals and bloggers. Vlogs will debut February 2014.

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